The Slow Mind of Enso

A planet's biosphere is dreaming its colonists into submission. Xenobiologist Delphine Stenmark arrives on the colony world of Enso to investigate coordinated crop failures, rerouted animal herds, and shared nightmares among settlers living near the forest edge. What she uncovers is far stranger than contamination: the entire ecosystem may be a single, slow-thinking mind — and the colonists have been cutting into its body for twelve years. Now Delphine must convince a fractured colony to coexist with a consciousness that defies every human frame of reference, before they destroy the only world that could sustain them.